Talk:Antarctica/Creating a map

OSM.ORG can't view poles

Visit

1. ( https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=South_Pole&params=90_S_0_E_ and then the big link to:)
2. https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-90&mlon=0&zoom=11#map=11/-90.0000/0.0000

Then click Share from the right panel. We see that we are still around 85 degrees south, not 90.

Similar problem with iD. Well, Google Maps can't see it either. Jidanni (talk) 08:25, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

In an untruncated Mercator projection, the poles are infinitely far away from the equator due to a sort of Xeno's paradox. This makes it hard to use the map, so Web Mercator truncates it. Arlo James Barnes (talk) 07:11, 7 July 2026 (UTC)